However, technical, ethical, and legal issues might delay or even prohibit the process of data collection.
Unless addressed effectively, challenges that arise during the course of field research may threaten to delay and even jeopardise the overall success of data collection.
Most studies that have attempted to report diagnostic delay have been poor at reporting the process of data collection.
This study focuses mainly on the 23 participants who died during the 12 months of data collection (there was a delay in home recruitment that limited data collection at two settings to 6 months only).
By using Australian data time delays and costs will decrease, facilitating the process of data collection.
Our study design did not allow us to check data saturation at the time of data collection, as there was an unavoidable delay between data collection and analysis due to interview translation into English and translation checking.
Figure 1 shows the proportion of people who reported that they avoided or delayed visiting a dentist because of cost by age group and year of data collection.
Another frequent complaint was about the lack of data collection.
There's a lot of data collection to be done".
Multiple methods of data collection were adopted.
